00:00I've been a professional makeup artist for about 15 years and one of the first things that I was
00:03taught how to do properly was how to powder a model's face and I encourage you to watch this
00:07if you're an up-and-coming makeup artist or you're just a makeup wearer and you hate looking powdery
00:11but you want everything to be controlled and last all day long, stick around. I'm also going to touch
00:15on the differences between loose and setting powder. Loose and pressed. This side of my face
00:20I'm going to use the loose, this is the Kosas powder. In my kit back in the day I used
00:24to love
00:25and I still do love the Laura Mercier translucent setting powder but I don't have it
00:28available. It's in my kit, like my professional kit. So I'm going to take this brush, I'm going to use
00:32the same brush for both sides, just two different versions of the same thing, just so that the
00:36application method is the same. So you just want to make sure that the powder is in the brush.
00:41Priming the brush really originated from this step. This step is priming the brush like there should
00:47never be loose powder particles sitting on the surface of your brush because you are going to
00:52overload your skin with powder. You want the powder to be in the bristles deep so that when you stipple
00:58on the skin you're just having this gentle shine control blotting motion that will take away the
01:06shine and this is the motion. The motion is just stipple and tap. You don't want to do any of
01:11that
01:11when you're powdering your face because you're first of all putting on too much perhaps
01:16and you probably don't need it and then you're also potentially aggravating the products underneath
01:20making them come up making your dry skin aggravate if you already have a little bit of dry skin
01:25making those textures appear more dry. So just with the makeup it's like painting literally just be delicate
01:31and like you know slight with everything. Put this over the mouth too and just give myself a little
01:37velvety lip. This is the cloud set powder from Kosas in the shade translucent buttery. It's a very nice
01:43powder actually. I'm pro oppressed powder for life because they're just easy to grab and go and take about
01:49your day with you. I'm just going to pop a little bit of shine control over that nose just there
01:55and then a little on the lid. This is my KGH brand number one brush. You can never have too
02:01many of
02:01these. This is just a black sample because we're changing the bristles of the top and so we've been
02:06sort of we're trying to make them a touch softer. Anyway, I digress. Tapping, tapping, tapping, stippling,
02:14stippling, stippling, stippling. You want to always start from the center of the face and work your way
02:19out. If you ever want more coverage from the powder you're going to want to take a more compacted brush.
02:23This is actually a foundation brush so I'm going to just load this brush with a little bit of powder
02:28but again making sure that it's not just sitting on the surface of the bristles. I'm going to just start
02:33stippling and tapping it into an area where I might want more coverage. So this technique gives you a
02:39little bit more of a sort of refined silhouette. This technique is also great if you want to
02:47cut under the jaw a little bit, under the cheekbone a little bit to pop and contrast your contour or
02:52your bronzer. How good does powder on the mouth look? So velvety and satin. So in my opinion this is
02:58very good powder form. You've got this side looks fine don't get me wrong but there's a lot of shine
03:03right there. There's a lot of shine right here. I've minimized it by a good 50%. If I need to
03:09apply
03:10more obviously throughout the day I would with something like this and that's kind of where
03:14the differences of these come in. So if you are a loose setting powder type of person you can have
03:18this at home, you should have this at home and then maybe carry a compact one with you throughout
03:23the day. Unless you carry a giant handbag and a giant makeup bag then of course you can take this
03:26with you throughout the day. It does have this great little stopper which stops your powder from sort of
03:30getting everywhere but loose powder is loose and it sometimes is hard for it to control for you to
03:34control where it goes. And the method and the concept of starting with a little bit and adding
03:38more is very very valid with face powder because when you when you pick up or if you pick up
03:44too much
03:44powder and too much product and then you've sort of mattified the skin you start to look a little dusty
03:48and a little powdery. Yeah you can put setting spray over it and so on and so forth but why
03:54not just add a
03:54little bit and then add more if you need more. Now this is a Tower 28 Balboa Banana and I'm
03:59just using
03:59that same brush. You don't typically have to prime the brush when it's a pressed powder because it
04:04doesn't pick up as much product. As you can see it's still giving me that matte control but if I
04:09was to pick up product with a loose and there's a lot of powder in my thing and you don't
04:14prime it
04:15into the brush then you're left with more powdery particles on the face that you therefore then need
04:19to blend in. Alright so I think it's always a good idea to powder over the lid, powder up and
04:25into the brow
04:26but again the whole method I mean it's a it's I hope this video is helpful because sometimes I
04:32don't know what's helpful to you because this is stuff that I just take for granted because I've
04:36known it for so many years and it's just something that I do the second nature now but I think
04:41what
04:42was I just going to say? I remember powder technique is I think really important if you are assisting
04:47somebody on set I think you'll find that they're quite impressed with you if you are applied
04:51applying powder in a really delicate way I think that's when back backstage at fashion week when
04:56I used to do shows a lot that was one of the things that I would always be watching for
04:59is
04:59are my team members that I've never worked with before doing this with powder and sort of aggravating
05:05um what's underneath and potentially applying too much. Okay so then I'm just using the excess
05:10powder in this brush to just tone down my blush a little bit and what's nice is that you can
05:17still
05:17see my highlighter coming through I'm wearing um Hyper Shine highlight from KJH brand in the soft
05:22pink light pink shade uh on the cheekbones down the nose it's also in the lip there's a really
05:29sort of concentrate highlighters I wanted these to be something that makeup artists would literally like
05:35want to have in their kit forever in a day and that's something that I could educate you all who
05:39maybe aren't makeup artists on how to spread product thin and shear things down and you know I always
05:45want to create concentrated product um if if and when I can to educate you on how to use it
05:51because
05:51that teaches you how to use all the other things that you've got in your makeup too and waste not
05:54what not so just to round it out the technique is prime it into the brush if it's loose prime
06:00it into
06:01the brush if it's loose making sure that there's no bristles sitting on the surface of the skin
06:05I didn't touch on poofs um because I would only use a poof a puff um out and about throughout
06:11the day I
06:12prefer brush for for for precision and for detailing but let me know if you have any questions on puffs
06:17um puffs are very makeup artist um forward products I'm not saying that they are only for makeup artists
06:24I'm saying like a puff is something that like you'll find makeup artists often will use loose powder with
06:30a puff and they will buff the powder into a into a puff and they'll sort of like roll it
06:36into the powder
06:37kind of like into the puff kind of like that and like sandwich it inside and then that's another
06:41way to powder which typically gives you a bit more of that like glamorous um old hollywood look
06:48so that's a whole other way as well arguably brushes do give you less of that powdery look um
06:53than a puff because a puff normally gives you more of a matte control that sort of depends on the
06:57powder
06:57I hope I'm not rambling anyway I hope this was helpful pop any comments in the comments below
07:03I really really like my makeup today if you made it this far I'm wearing um a lot of soft
07:07tomato from
07:08KGH brand with a little bit of this powder from a YSL over the top in the shade 57
07:14and a lot of a hyper shine highlight from KGH brand
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